Posted by valene on November 23, 2005, at 19:55:27
In reply to Valiums (Diazepams) inventor still alive aged 96!!, posted by paulbwell on November 22, 2005, at 19:39:40
Leo Sternbach died September 28, 2005 at the age of 97.
See obituary:
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-2-2005-78020.asp> Dr Leo Sternbach established in the late 1950s that Chlordiopoxide (Librium) sedated animals. he then went onto seperate a different molecule which he named DIAZEPAM and was in 1963, tradenamed VALIUM(r)and released onto the market-perhaps you have heard of it?-hehe
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> Apparently Dr Sternbach is still alive aged 96, or something?-remarkable
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> Dr Leo Sternbach (Roche, Pharm) the instigator of benzodiazepines!!!
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> Cheers
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